BENE
Beams for European Neutrino Experiments
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Deputy coordinator: S. Pascoli |
BENE is a Networking Activity (N3) in the framework
of CARE |
The aim
of this Networking Activity is to integrate and coordinate the activities of
the accelerator and particle physics communities working together, in a
worldwide context, towards achieving superior neutrino beam facilities for
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to establish a road map for upgrade of our present
facility and the design and construction of new ones;
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to assemble a community capable of sustaining the
technical realisation and scientific exploitation of these facilities;
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to establish and propose the necessary R&D efforts
to achieve these goals.
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1a) EUROnu
= EUROn = 4 years FP7 EuroNeutrino Design Study of next
neutrino facility: the draft
Consortium Agreement is now under final revision. It may finally start
this September. The dates of
the signature of the Grant Agreement ( 1b) LAGUNA,
2 years FP7 Design Study
of large scale detectors, has similarly started officially on
July 1, but still expects EC funds. http://laguna.ethz.ch 2) NEu2012= Neutrino beams
for The 10th annual
International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams,
organized in Jun 08 The second-meeting of the IDS-NF, the International
Design Study on Neutrino Factories took place this week. An "initial information on
the outcome of evaluation" was received today. The score of EuCARD, Accelerator R&D, was 14.5/15.
It was indeed admitted to negotiation. The score of DEVDET, Detector R&D, was12.5. Chances
of admission are lower. We will need to set up (some reduced version of) DevDet , even if we had no EU seed money. EuCARD= European Coordinated Accelerator R&D, Rooted in CARE, this is R&D for LHC, ILC, CLIC, n beams and more. In our sector, it includes the a new
Networking Activity (the νEu2012 or NEu2012 NA), a Transnational Access (TA)
to the STFC MICE muon beam, several Joint Research
Activities (JRA’s) relevant for neutrinos in the
areas of SCRF applications (the SPL and more), high power target and collector
materials, NCRF applications (to ionization cooling channels and more), High
Field Magnets for accelerators and storage rings of neutrino parents, FFAGg’s and more.
The total cost of EuCARD is Rooted in BENE,
the NEu2012 NA intends to deliver at the end of 2012 an agreed
programme of neutrino experiments, based on upgrades of existing
infrastructures and/or on the proposal of a new one. According to the the “European Strategy for Particle Physics”, that
emphasizes the importance of accelerator-based neutrino experiments and sets
the milestone for the next major undertaking in this field in 2012. The
requests to EC is 315 KEuros. The TA-STFC
requests 296 Keuros. DEVDET=
Detector Development in HEP, again R&D for LHC, ILC, CLIC, n detectors and more, with a total cost of WP2: Software development of
common simulation and reconstruction software, including neutrino
interactions |
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Meetings |
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Upcoming meetings of BENE interest
Other Meetings of interest (before the news) Project X - Machine 12- BENE07/CARE07 Meeting
(October 29-31, 2007 - CERN) more.... |
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Publications |
General Links |
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Publications from the Work
Packages Proceedings Other Publications Talks at Meetings |
Monthly Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Newsletters:
results, papers, announcements, progress reports, meetings of core BENE
interest Neutrino
and Muon Activities at CERN The
International Scoping Study (ISS) of a future Neutrino Factory and Superbeam facility |
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